Common HEP UNIX Environment - Goals


The goal of this project is to provide a common user environment for UNIX users and solutions, recommendations, advices, in order to integrate:

  1. a common user environment at line mode level (shell)

    in particular in the login, interactive and batch environments for supporting the 6 main shells (sh, csh, ksh, bash, tcsh, zsh)

  2. a common user environment at graphical level

    in particular the X11 environment

For each target, the requirements are:

to users it should mainly offer

to system administrators it should offer

to both users and system administrators

Moreover it should aim New users, new experiments, new machines and be flexible enough to address by side effect all the old users who will be affected.


Arnaud Taddei, 27-Jun-1996